Italian Rock band Belladonna entered a historic collaboration with the famous theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli. This involved the release of new single ‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns‘, and a 1/1/ NFT of the song recorded auctioned, with the winner becoming the co-owner of the song’s master rights.
Rovelli is one of the most prominent living theoretical physicists: author of the best-selling book Seven Brief Lessons On Physics (translated into 41 languages, with more than a million copies sold) and a founder of Loop Quantum Gravity, he was included by the prestigious journal Foreign Policy in its list of the 100 most influential thinkers in the world.
The single ‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns’ is a collaboration between Rovelli and Belladonna wherein the voice and the reflections about time of the scientist (who dedicated his 2017 book The Order Of Time to the subject of time) float in the cinematic and dreamlike rock noir atmosphere created by the band founded by Luana Caraffa and Dani Macchi.
‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns’ is an eight minutes long track with a strong emotional impact, as confirmed by Rovelli himself: “It is wonderful for me to see the emotion that secretly nourished my book on Time emerge in this very intense song”.
“Carlo Rovelli’s spoken-word contribution bestows upon our song an emotional power and multidimensionality that never fails to send shivers down our spines,” remarked Belladonna’s singer Luana Caraffa.
The song is also enhanced by the drumming of Alex Elena (producer of international artists such as Lily Allen and Citizen Cope, nominated for a Grammy for his work as a producer with the American soul singer Alice Smith and known to the rock world rock for having been the drummer for Skunkworks, the band of Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson in the 90s) and by a violin solo that crowns the ending of the track, performed by Emilio ‘Zef’ China (violinist/ bassist for Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy and Korn’s Jonathan Davis.
‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns’ was written by Belladonna‘s Luana Caraffa and Dani Macchi, and it is their third NFT single. Last year their ‘New Future Travelogue’ NFT was the first NFT single in the world to include a song’s master rights. Since then, many artists and many NFT marketplaces have followed in the footsteps of Belladonna by offering this model.
“Belladonna‘s music has already been synched in many international trailers and movies (Minions, Split, Peaky Blinders, The Northman, Fantastic 4, Black Panther, Godless and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 to name just a few), and we’d be immensely happy if ‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns’ too ends up in a movie or trailer”, said Belladonna’s guitarist Dani Macchi.
There will be only a single NFT, and a single vinyl copy of ‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns’. Ownership of the rights will give the auction’s winner 50% of Belladonna’s streaming and syncs revenues for the song. The winner will be announced on 4th of December at Onlymusix, the premiere Italian marketplace for music NFTs that you can find here.
‘Nothing Shines Unless It Burns’ is on Spotify here and you can check out the video here at RAMzine.
